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Mad about the '60s

Today's cellphone does the same job with a beep, but it can't equal the bed-stand flair of a retro-looking alarm with a black or red, metal or plastic case on legs -- sometimes, a pedestal. Today, the style is called midcentury modern. Wall ...

www.arkansasonline.comApril 11, 2015

Lake County's Geysers provides electricity, jobs — and tours

Around the clock, seven days a week, its 15 plants hum quietly and efficiently, cranking out 6 million megawatts of natural, clean energy a year, enough to supply 39 percent of the United States' geothermal generation, and 18 percent of California's ...

www.sfgate.comApril 10, 2015

Partying Like a Tsar in Sofia, the Nightlife Capital of Bulgaria

Take a seat in one of the outdoor cafes out front and enjoy the setting light on the theater's glamorous red façade. As the name suggests, the interior is inspired by the famed Berlin Wall crossing point. Without For a more upscale choice head ...

www.yahoo.comApril 9, 2015

Speed-up rules put baseball on the clock

So this Thursday at 2:05 p.m., the Bisons will play in the first-ever game with a pitch clock when they host the Rochester Red Wings in the opening game of the IL season at Coca-Cola Field. Baseball, whose essential charm has always been its timeless ...

buckyandsully.buffalonews.comApril 4, 2015

Pages from the past

There is a wall of romance, there are piles of old National Geographics and a paperback of The Da Vinci Code is just $4. I nearly buy "Modern fiction is in high demand," North reports. "Men are With the clock tower gone it is easy to overshoot ...

www.stuff.co.nzApril 10, 2015

'Furious 7': What Happened to the Wrecked Cars

“It was a round-the-clock process, with multiple tow trucks and car carriers.” For 2011's “Fast Five,” in which the “Furious” crew haul a massive bank vault through Puerto Rico, filmmakers struck a deal with the government to transport used cars ...

www.wsj.comApril 1, 2015

Time to abolish the Senate

No matter what rules you put in place, or reforms you create, or elections you hold, the Senate will still serve as a modern-day rubber stamp to Parliament. It has therefore evolved into a proxy, and an institution that rewards friends, political ...

www.torontosun.comApril 9, 2015

Articles

I’ve never run through a brick wall, not even figuratively, but an advance viewing of the E:60 documentary Matt Harvey: The Dark Knight Rises filled me with the impulse to follow the title character through one. The same film also convinced me that Matt probably put his head down and stormed a few brick walls to make his rehabilitation regimen as rigorous as possible. Of course I wanna see it. If this provides you with proper impetus to watch or DVR when ESPN airs its good work Saturday night at 7:00 (or reairs Monday night at 10 , after the network’s tripleheader coverage of Opening Day), then you’ll have... It’s Harvey being Harvey, reminding us why we fell in love with some combination of him, his performance and his persona. It’s additional reassurance — coupled with what he’s done all spring — that this guy is as seriously ready to go as could be. Because Harvey’s career to date has totaled only a little more than year and change of playing time, there wasn’t a ton... Ultimately, though, that’s OK, because it means you keep seeing Harvey 2013 over and over, and personally, I can’t see Harvey 2013 enough (save for his final game that summer against Detroit, when the sense that something was wrong with his golden...

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Why Are Alarm Clocks Still a Thing?

By the early 1900s, mechanical alarm clocks, and the electricity needed to run them, became more affordable and widespread, Ekirch told me. By the 1930s, the kind of alarm clocks found in most modern homes ... it's plugged into the wall (with a 9V battery ...

motherboard.vice.comApril 10, 2015

Bad Iran deal foretold in ‘blood moon’ celestial signs?

This week the world will experience the third of a tetrad of “blood moons,” colloquially termed because of Rayleigh scattering (which also causes sunsets to appear red) in filtered ... need to look very far for contemporary Jewish national strife ...

www.timesofisrael.comApril 2, 2015

Less is more for super sexy pop goddess Taylor Swift who grabs Code Red Look of the Week

POP goddess Taylor Swift was a winner at the iHeartRadio Music Awards and on the red carpet with her super sexy mini earning ... look at the Woman In Gold premiere at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on Monday. Her slicked-back hairstyle and fun spring ...

www.adelaidenow.com.auApril 4, 2015

Speed-up rules put baseball on the clock

Red Sox games averaged 3:17 ... whose essential charm has always been its timeless nature, is now on the clock. There will be three clocks in operation at Bisons games. Two will be on the wall behind home plate, one of them clearly visible to the pitcher ...

www.buffalonews.comApril 4, 2015

Giant slides to return at gallery

The giant spiralling slides which proved a huge hit at Tate Modern are returning to London's South Bank ... Built into the gallery's exterior wall, the slides will "constitute a graceful sculptural installation" while also being a device for "experiencing ...

www.redhillandreigatelife.co.ukMarch 31, 2015

REKINDLES HALL OF FLAME: Superintendent James Braidwood

One of the most influential and progressive-thinking fire officers in modern history, James Braidwood ... High Street (in the center of Old Town) was Red. Fountain Bridge (new southwest quarter) was Blue. Teviot Place (south side of Old Town) was Grey ...

(Exodus 3:2-3) The burning bush, sometimes identified as an acacia tree covered with red flowers and fruit ... and the waters were to them as a wall from their right and from their left.” (Exodus 14:22) The painting began as a beautiful abstract landscape.